Google has just announced the accepted projects for the Summer of Code 2013. W3C was granted four slots. First of all, I'd like to thank all the students who participated as well as the mentors, particularly Manu Sporny who...More…

Back in May I have already blogged on the release of a new, RDFa 1.1 version of the distiller code. Many things have happened since May, however, with changes in RDFa, introduction of RDFa 1.1 Lite, etc. I have also...More…

One of the exciting events of the past few months was the joint announcement of schema.org from three major search engine providers (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft). It was a major step in the recognition that structured data, embedded in Web...More…

The distiller for RDFa 1.0 has been around for quite some time now, and has been widely used. With the advance of RDFa 1.1, I have made a fairly extensive re-write of the distiller, though, which is now available...More…

With RDFa 1.1 making its way out of last call, I looked at the examples from Google’s Webmaster Central to see what RDFa 1.1 brings to those. A typical example is the one on reviews; here s where it...More…

After long discussions the call for votes on a new RDF Working Group has been sent to W3C members; the goal is to set up a new W3C Working Group taking care of some technical issues around RDF. It was...More…

W3C has just published a First Public Working Draft for RDFa 1.1 Core and XHTML+RDFa 1.1. Yay! I did have an RDFa Distiller software and service for RDFa 1.0. Well, I did spend some time in the past few weeks...More…

W3C has just published the SVG Tiny 1.2 recommendation. Others are much more experts than me to describe the changes in the core functionality compared to the 1.1 version, so I let them do that. However, there is an interesting...More…

I have made a small update on the pyRdfa Python package that drives the RDFa distiller. The main differences between this version and the previous are: via a private communication Dan Brickley made me think on the following: what is...More…

Irène Vatton has just announced the availability of the latest Amaya version, namely Amaya 11. (For those who may not know what Amaya is, it is an open source (X)HTML browser and editor in one.) The interesting point in this...More…

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